| 2007
- 100%
Smoke-free Environments |
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Neither ventilation
nor filtration, alone or in combination, can reduce exposure levels
of tobacco smoke indoors to levels that are considered acceptable,
even in terms of odor, much less health effects. The evidence demands
an immediate, decisive response, to protect the health of all people.
Why go smoke-free? Because...
- Second-hand
tobacco smoke kills and causes serious illnesses.
- 100% smoke-free
environments fully protect workers and the public from the serious
harmful effects of tobacco smoke.
- The right
to clean air, free from tobacco smoke, is a human right.
- Most people
in the world are non-smokers and have a right not to be exposed
to other people's smoke.
- Surveys show
that smoking bans are widely supported by both smokers and non-smokers.
- Smoke-free
environments are good for business, as families with children,
most non-smokers and even smokers often prefer to go to smoke-free
places.
- Smoke-free
environments provide the many smokers who want to quit with a
strong incentive to cut down or stop smoking altogether.
- Smoke-free
environments help prevent people – especially the young – from
starting to smoke.
- Smoke-free
environments cost little and they work!
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| 2006
- Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise |
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Tobacco companies
continue to expand with new variants of the "light", "mild" and
"low tar" cigarette campaigns so popular in the 20th century. Nowadays,
they reassure health concerned smokers by offering with their new
products the illusion of safety. They continue to take their old
and new customers to more insidious levels of deception by promoting
and selling new products disguised under healthier names, fruity
flavours or more attractive-looking packaging.
The purpose of World No Tobacco Day 2006 is to encourage countries
and governments to work towards strict regulation of tobacco products.
We will do this by raising awareness about the existence of the
wide variety of deadly tobacco products. Regulation should also
help people get accurate information, remove the disguise and unveil
the truth behind tobacco products
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| 2005
- Health Professionals and Tobacco Control |
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Health Professionals
are in an excellent position that allows them to have a prominent
role on tobacco control.
Comprehensive tobacco programmes aimed at controlling the use of
tobacco efficiently should consider a mix of measures including
legislation and pricing measures, but also prevention -through education,
communication, informational campaigns that raise awareness of the
effects of tobacco on health- and other demand reduction measures
concerning tobacco dependence and cessation. Health Professionals
can intervene in these ambits. They reach a high percentage of the
population. Health Professionals have the opportunity to help people
change their behaviour and they can give advice, guidance and answers
to questions related to the consequences of tobacco use, they can
help patients to stop smoking. Studies have shown that even brief
counseling by Health Professionals on the dangers of smoking and
the importance of quitting is one of the most cost-effective methods
of reducing smoking.
See the Code
of Practice on Tobacco Control for Health Professionals (pdf)
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| 2004
- Tobacco and Poverty: A Vicious Circle |
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Tobacco is the
fourth most common risk factor for disease worldwide. The economic
costs of tobacco use are equally devastating. In addition to the
high public health costs of treating tobacco-caused diseases, tobacco
kills people at the height of their productivity, depriving families
of breadwinners and nations of a healthy workforce. Tobacco users
are also less productive while they are alive due to increased sickness.
A 1994 report estimated that the use of tobacco resulted in an annual
global net loss of US$ 200 thousand million, a third of this loss
being in developing countries.
This colorful 16-page
brochure (pdf 784 kb) outlines the vicious circle of tobacco
and poverty: who pays, who benefits and why tobacco control is a
necessity.
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| 2003
- Tobacco-free Film and Fashion |
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The WHO is calling
on the entertainment industry, in particular the world of films
and fashion, to stop promoting a product that kills every second
regular user.
The world of
film and fashion cannot be accused of causing cancer. But they do
not have to promote a product that does. World No Tobacco Day 2003
will focus on the role of the world of fashion and film in fostering
a worldwide epidemic and urge them to stop being used as vehicles
of death and disease.
Get the brochure
(pdf 328 kb) here.
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| 2002
- Tobacco-Free Sports |
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Sports celebrate
life. Sports inspire healthy living, healthy competition, and fun.
Tobacco causes death and disease.
Tobacco and sports do not mix. Not among athletes. Not in sports
sponsorships. Not among spectators. Not at playgrounds and stadiums.
Highlights:
Photos
Memorandum
of Agreement between the Dept. of Health (DOH) and the Phil. Sports
Commission (PSC)
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| 2001
- Second-hand smoke kills. Let's clear the air. |
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There
is no excuse for the harm that is inflicted on non-smokers by second-hand
smoke.
WHO
Regional Director's message
WNTD 2001 at Museo Pambata
Open Letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |
| 2000
- Tobacco kills. Don't be duped. |
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For
many years (decades), tobacco companies have been hiding the truth,
denying what they knew all along about nicotine addiction and the
ill effects of smoking on health. |
